The 13th Theory Atelier: “Surviving as Non/Human in a World of Endings”
Lecture Overview: In Part III, Reassembled Fringes, of Worm-Time: Memories of Division in South Korean Aesthetics (Cornell University Press, 2024), author Wi-Jung Lee approaches webtoon storytelling—which emerged in the early 2010s as a major content trend among digital-native generations—as a2025-11-07
2025 SNU International Conference Session: “Reading Cultural Symptoms of Korea”
The Institute for SNU Contemporary Korean Studies hosted an international academic conference on August 22–23 under the theme “Korea as Symptom.” On the first day’s concluding session, the K-Future Team presented their research achievements under the title “Reading Cultural Symptoms2025-09-17
2025 SNU International Conference Session: “Walking as Object-Method in Korean Studies”
The Institute for Comprehensive Korean Studies at Seoul National University hosted its international academic conference on August 22–23 under the theme “Korea as Symptom.” The opening session featured the panel “Walking as Object-Method in Korean Studies,” proposed and organized by2025-09-17
The 12th Theory Atelier: “Queer Politics of the Wounded”
The K-Future Team of the Institute for Korean Studies at Seoul National University invites you to a colloquium with Professor Minwoo Jung from Loyola University Chicago. Title: The Queer Politics of the Wounded: Reparation Work and Queer Youth Activism in2025-09-16
The 11th Theory Atelier: “East–West Civilizational Dialogue through Habermas’s 2019 Study of Confucianism”
The K-Future Team of the Center for Contemporary Korean Studies invites you to a colloquium with Professor Tong Shijun, President of NYU Shanghai. Title: Dialogue Between Eastern and Western Civilizations through Habermas’s 2019 Study on Confucianism Speaker: Prof. Tong Shijun2025-08-21
The 10th Theory Atelier: “Moishe Postone—Critical Theory That Critiques Critical Theory”
The K-Future Team of the Center for Contemporary Korean Studies invites you to a colloquium with Professor Yong-Taek Chung. Title: Moishe Postone: A Critical Theory that Critiques Critical Theory Speaker: Prof. Yong-Taek Chung (Research Professor, Institute for Theological Ideas, Hanshin2025-08-21
The 9th Theory Atelier: “(Back to the) Future Fieldwork”
The K-Future Team of the Center for Contemporary Korean Studies invites you to a colloquium with Professor Valérie Gelézeau. Lecture Overview: How might we methodologically reflect on K-Future? In this lecture, I draw on over three decades of experience developing2025-08-21
The 8th Theory Atelier: “How I Learned to Stop Doing ‘Theory’ and Love the ‘Soviet’”
The K-Future Team of the Center for Contemporary Korean Studies cordially invites you to a public colloquium with Professor Suhwan Kim. Lecture Overview: After earning my PhD in 2002 with a dissertation on 20th-century Russian semiotician Yuri Lotman, I spent2025-08-21
Theory Atelier: “The Unencumbered Self” (Samantha Frost | 2025.02.10)
On February 10, 2025, the K-Future Team hosted Professor Samantha Frost (Department of Political Science, University of Illinois) for a Theory Atelier session. A political theorist known for her materialist reinterpretation of Hobbesian philosophy, Professor Frost’s work focuses on how2025-08-20